AAS Meeting 2023

Join the next meeting of the American Arachnological Society

2023 Annual Meeting

Epilogue on the 2023 Meetings:

By the numbers:  ~140 attendees with 62 talks and 38 poster presentations. Three keynote speakers.  Four outstanding symposia: Sensory Ecology, Behavior and Machine Learning, Evolutionary Trends in the Arachnid Tree of Life, and Chronobiology.

 

Abstracts

 

Student Presentation Awards winners:

Oral Winner: Alex Winsor for “Visual object categorization in the jumping spider brain.”

Oral runner-up: Becca Robertson for “Effects of symbiont communities that manipulate spider reproduction and phenotype in response to selection.”

Poster winner: Aislinn Shilcusky for “Does Atypus karschi use projectile defecation as a drift fence trap?”

Poster runner-up: Gia Ramos for “Identification and expression of protein regulators of the spider circadian clock.”

 

View the keynote lectures:

Subscribe to the AAS youtube channel americanarachnology.org and to watch the superb keynote speakers.

Dr. Daiqin Li on Bird-dropping masquerade in Phrynarachne crab spiders: a bird's eye view. https://youtu.be/tYtOWWj9rfc

Dr. Hannah Wood  Palpimanoid spiders: bizarre morphologies, unusual behaviors, and extreme speeds. https://youtu.be/cvD2pn4BSdM

Dr. George Uetz Rainforest to research lab: studies of the social life (and sex life) of spiders.

https://youtu.be/ot_xgjUltkA?si=9bkAJ5YjTs6OPiHH

2023 AAS Meeting Group Photo

More Meeting Shirts:

If you have realized that you need another huntsman spider in the Finger Lakes t-shirts for your holiday gifts, there are more available ($20 + shipping, contact Linda.Rayor@~@cornell.edu).

 

Thank you again to our generous meeting donors!

Dr. Chris Malloy - Torque Park Citizen Science Center, Klamath, OR

Dr. Cole Gilbert – Department of Entomology, Cornell University

Fear Not Tarantulas: Where beauty has eight legs - https://fearnottarantulas.com/

Australian Museum whose blockbuster Spiders - From Fear to Fascination Exhibit is touring museums through North America.
Spiders: Fear to Fascination opens at the Fernwood Museum in Atlanta (10 February – 5 May 2024). https://www.fernbankmuseum.org/experiences/exhibits/special-exhibits/spiders-from-fear-to-fascination-1/

David Folker – David Folker Graphics for huntsman spider logo design (email: davidfolker@yahoo.com)

 

Meeting hosts:

Dr. Linda S. Rayor, Cornell University and Dr. Matthias Foellmer, Adelphi University